HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 379 



OUR EXCHANGES. 



At the close of the year we desire to say a few words about our exchanges. 

 They are of course rather numerous, but to some we are under obligations 

 for courteous notices and encouragement. 



W. S. King, Esq. of Boston is editor of three of our exchanges, the Prac- 

 tical Farmer weekly, and the Journal of Agriculture and Gardeners' Maga- 

 zine monthly, which are principally made up from the different articles on 

 each branch in the weekly. All of these are conducted with ability and 

 contain excellent contributions, the price of the Farmer is $2.00 and of 

 the monthlies $1.00 per annum each. 



The Working Farmer, published in New York, at $2.00 a year is a 

 monthly, edited by Prof. Mapes. The well known ability of its editor is a 

 guarantee that something instructive can always be found in its pages. He 

 appears to be at loggerheads with a number of other agricultural editors, 

 but he seems able to take care of himself. We are the more disposed to 

 feel favorably towards the Working Farmer as it is the only paper in the 

 State of New York which has noticed the Florist. 



Our neighbors, the Pennsylvania Farm Journal and the Germantown 

 Telegraph are too well known and appreciated to require any commendation 

 from us. The former published at Westchester at $1.00 a year has reached 

 a large circulation and it is steadily and rapidly increasing. It is singular, 

 that it and the Florist are the only magazines exclusively devoted to Agri- 

 culture and Horticulture in this state. But then the quality makes up the 

 deficiency. The Soil of the South publishsd at Columbus, Ga. is an excel- 

 lent monthly. The Horticultural part is conducted by Mr. Peabody, who 

 has become well known by his successful Strawberry culture. The Alabama 

 Planter is the weekly edition of the Mobile Tribune, and is furnished with 

 excellent essays by the writers of its neighborhood. 



Of our Western friends we have several times spoken. The Prairie Far- 

 mer of Chicago, the Iowa Farmer of Burlington, Iowa, and the Ohio Farmer 

 of Cleveland, O. are welcome visitors to our table. Of the Western Horti- 

 cultural Review we have received nothing since the eighth number, the 

 cause we do not know. 



A FEW WORDS TO OUR READERS. 



We have now completed another volume of the Florist, not without dis- 

 satisfaction arising from delay in its issue. This our subscribers, or the 

 majority of them must blame themselves for, as they neglected to pay their 



